What I see today is the need for a lot more material from the intellectuals.
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As such, initially, there could be a wide gap between what the intellectuals desired and what the populace wanted or voted for.
Their discipline, tinged with philosophy though it might have been, was not quite philosophical enough for the intellectuals who were creating the network of universities that spread from Bologna, via Paris, to Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere.
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However, if we carefully analyze what guides the viewpoint of these intellectuals the story is hair-rising.
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Like modern Gnostics relishing in some secret knowledge that surpasses the received wisdom of the ages, intellectuals proclaim the way forward.
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Despite the slightly tedious nostalgia for the world of the New York intellectuals and the patient outlets of nineteen-fifties high journalism, I doubt that Edmund Wilson or Alfred Kazin would rightfully find much to complain about.
Because everybody said when Reagan came in, all of the moss back admirals and the trendy OSD intellectuals and the people on the Hill said, you can't take the fleet north of the GIUK gap, you can't survive up there.
That these recommendations are completely contradicted by the results of their own research reveals the ability of intellectuals to perpetuate the self-delusion that they are smarter than markets.
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French philosopher and theologian, Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was one of the most important intellectuals and scholars of the twentieth century.
"Generally in the West, intellectuals like to blame the markets, " he says.
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This would be the typical view of many of the pseudo-intellectuals that now populate much of the media and intellectual public life in Argentina.
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This wildlife, however, also includes the swarms of intellectuals and politicians who descend each January for the so-called Renaissance weekends.
He studied classics at Wadham College, Oxford from 1923 and went on to become a well-known member of the Auden group of poets and intellectuals in the 1930s.
Over the next few decades, according to Dr Principe's analysis of their letters and publications, chymists in England, France and elsewhere deliberately distanced themselves from the alchemists, casting themselves as intellectuals, the alchemists as charlatans, and the two activities as distinct.
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This would not be the first time American intellectuals have been troubled by the sense of greatness slipping away.
Holder understands that the heroic efforts of black activists and intellectuals in the past forced America to clarify its ideals in the crucible of struggle that helped to define the American character.
Aware of the need for intellectuals, politicians and civil society from everywhere to rally this cause, UNESCO and the Confucius Institute of the People's Republic of China Headquarters have joined forces to host the Paris-Nishan Forum on "Confucianism and New Humanism in a Globalized World" at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 16 April 2012.
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Unlike the leftist public intellectuals such as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman who are celebrated and obsessively covered by the Israeli media, Beck exerts real influence on public opinion in the US. His calls for action are answered by hundreds of thousands of people.
Indeed, calligraphy is no longer the basic tool of intellectuals and officials but has become the preserve of professional artisans and amateur enthusiasts.
It is telling that Pearson resists the impulse of true scholars and intellectuals to probe the cultural contexts and social meanings of art forms that demand the world's attention in the way hip hop has over the past quarter century.
He'd been looking forward to the talk, a rare opportunity to address Islamic intellectuals in the Middle East.
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The Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals, better known by the initials ICMI, which he chairs, expected their members to get seats in the cabinet, as Habibie favorites did in the previous one.
The festival brings nearly 50, 000 international writers, authors and intellectuals to the Centro Historico every January.
But the real point is that American intellectuals have always preferred the theory of politics to its dirty reality.
Are all these just the musings of head-in-the-clouds intellectuals?
Some are directed at "members of the post-civil rights era generation of Black academics" who matured as writers and intellectuals during the rise of hip hop culture.
The Antica Barberia Colla has been cutting the hair of Milan's intellectuals since 1904 and offers the closest shave in Milan.
A. The first people to imagine how digital technology would transform warfare were a cadre of senior military intellectuals in the Soviet Union, during the nineteen-seventies.
The Parque das Ruinas contains the burned out shell of the mansion belonging to Brazilian heiress Laurinda Santos Lobo, whose house was a salon for Rio's artists and intellectuals in the 1920s and '30s.
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